PERSONAL

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 78, 11 March 1882, Page 406

PERSONAL

— Captain and Mrs Ashby return to England via San Francisco, by the s.s. City of Sydney. — Who were those young women who were out all night at the North Shore ? —Sir John O'Shannassy left by the Eotorua on Tuesday.

— Who was the fanatic who buried the dog alive in Wanganui the other day ? — Fred Montague is going away to Sydney by the next steamer.

— Mr J. A. Jagger says the Beresford-street Social in the Temperance Hall was " splendid." — Mr Eobson, elocutionist, arrived from New Plymouth by the s.s. Hawea.

— Who is the Judas Iscariot to whom Mr Cornish pointed in his sermon on Sunday last ? — Mr W. H. of Waipu is a great swell in his new strapped riding trousers.

— Mr and Mrs J. M. Lennox are contemplating an early trip to Australia.

~ — Who is the parson who was clean gone on the young lady at Waiwera ?

— Thompson ought to clear about £100 over the band contest.

—There are a great number of people in Auckland who are very sorry Alderman went away. Why?

— It is said that Eobson, the elocutionist, is a gentleman of independent means and lectures only for pleasure.

— Mr Gc. S. Graham proceeds to Brisbane to establish branches of the Colonial Insurance Company.

— The lady who stole behind the screen to eat the pears at the North Shore Band contest was observed. Be sure your sins will find you out. — Captain. Kerr has been selected out of a large number of applicants for the post of editor of the Poverty Bay Standard.

— Mr Syme, of the Melbourne Age, returned from the Lakes, via Tauvanga, by the s.s. Wellington on Saturday.

— Mr David Goldie has been elected Grand Master of the Orange Order in New Zealand for the ensuing year.

— Who were the young ladies from Auckland that a well-known jeweller was promenading with round Wanganui the other day ?

—One of the items in St. James' Mutual Improvement Association programme for the present session is " Advice to Youths" by Mr J. A. Jagger. We are going.

—Mr W. Bosser lias been appointed " boss" of the U. S. and D. Co., to succeed Mr Herbert. That " lock-out" business is not settled yet, however.

— Mr Matthew Poole was married the other day at the residence of the bride's mother, Northcote, to Margaret W. Gfrigg Milner, only daughter of the late William H. Milner, of Greenock.

— The Northern Advocate made a mistake last week, in saying that Miss Mary MeLeod, the belle of Whangarei Heads, was married. It is another Mary MeLeod, better known as big Mary Eraser. — Mr John A. MeLeod, of Whangarei Heads 3 was* married last week to Miss Wikes, late of Waipu. May you see your silver wedding, Johnnie and be happy forever after. — The late stewardess of the Grlenelg thinks she has been more sinned against than sinning. She denies that any complaints were made against her.

— James Fulton, M.H.R., Taieri, is the latest tigjlor the Chairmanship of Committees in the """House. "What a scramble there'll be for that £500 a year. !

— Miss K. M. Gr., of the Heads is on a visit to Matakohe, and Johnny has consequently got his moustache curled like a wreath of smoke in a sunbeam.

— Mrs O.j of Parnell, objects to have her house termed a " boarding house." She says, out of x puife kindness only, she provides a home for gentlemen.

— It was very wrong of that young man to slay over at the North Shore all Sunday night. His excuse about missing the boat is too thin. "Was there any one with him ?

— It is about time. Alex. Smith learnt some new recitations. "The Vagabond," "Whaur's my StocMn," and the " Labourer's Complaint " have lasted now for ten years. . — Miss March, of the Thames, begs to state that the description of the dress given in the Observes was not worn by her. What does it mean ?

— Who is the member of the Board of Education who is trying to palm off as a teacher's residence a miserable shanty at Howick, built forty years ago ? Is this another little job ? — Miss JSancarrow and Miss Didsbury have arrived in Auckland from Wellington on a three months visit. P. H. must beware. He almost appears to have lost his heart already. —Mr Charles Eowe, shipping clerk of H.M.C., has got a fortnight's holiday, and has gone for a trip on the briny. He is certainly one of the hardest working men in the department.

— The fact is not generally known that Mr E. K. Tyler was one of the patriots who fought and bled in the Ballarat insurrection. Mr Tyler, we learn, was a perfect Bayard on that occasion, and received several buckshot in his head.

— Miss Forbes lias returned to Auckland from the South after an absence of four years, looking younger than erer, or as her friends say, " superb." Mir able fflctv.: She likes the Southern winters betterVthsn the Auckland climate. .£— Thompson, the cornet^player, who arranged thj^bandXcontest last Satur^y:got into hot water ■ late* in the evening. He hard some words with a half-drunken fellow about a "pass," and being unable to come to terms they came to blows. The musician received several nasty hits and was comipeEejl to quiihis post at the door.

— We were glad to" see Miss Carrie G-odfrey a,t the band contest, looking quite recovered from her recent illness. She will receive a benefit at the theatre in about a fortnight, prior to her departure with Mr Thompson to America about April. — Brabazon's (Professor Bullifrozzio's) ventriloqual performance at the Lome-street Hall was decidedly good for an amateur. The dialogue, etc., was equal to the production of many travelling professionals and would please any audience. We wish the young " sound chucker" luck. The Eev. Slocum arrived from Christchurch by the Hawea on Sunday. He comes a-begging. An " Independent" congregation to which he belongs went over to the Presbyterians and are now short of the all-needful. All the goodygoody people are to be visited next week. — The post captain of the A. T. Co. has arrived at the conclusion that the right girl lives at Whangaroa. He intends to introduce Miss M. to a parson very shortly. The united ages of the happy pair will be 56 years, the young lady having experienced exactly sixteen summers in this wicked world.

— Our Dunedin correspondent writes : — I noticed to-day leaving for Melbourne by the Te Anau en route for England, a certain dashing member of Auckland society, distantly related to the Eoyal Family, but more nearly connected with a certain wealthy distiller. He was accompanied by his young wife who, little more than a year ago, was one of the handsomest of our Dunedin belles.

— A fellow who signs himself "An Occasional " — whatever that may mean, writes to the Bay of Plenty Times expressing the pleasure he feels at having stirred up our bile about the unwarranted strictures he passed on our Tauranga correspondent. "An Occasional " resembles the boy who stirred up a stink in a mud-hole, and was proud of the achievement, or an old hen laying a bad egg. There is an omission from his signature which we hasten to supply — It ought to read " An Occasional Perverter of the Truth."